We can still win the SEC and it isn't a stretch now...

[HagginHall1999]

Current standings:

Bama 10-2
Tenn 9-3
USC 9-4
Auburn 9-4
UK 8-4
Florida 8-4

We SHOULD win LSU, Ms St, Vandy, Arkansas. Hold court at Rupp vs Bama (we are due) and it all may come down to UT on the road.

Bama still has us, @Miss, Tenn, @ Florida

Tenn still has us, Auburn, @Bama, @USC

USC is fading and has multiple road games, TAM, Miss, MST, plus Tenn at home

Florida has Bama twice and at USC

 

[jameslee32]

Came in thinking 5 losses can win the SEC. Not so sure now but we have Bama at home and we played well at Tenn last year. The road doesn't scare this team. Only 1 loss you can even consider a blowout.

 

[sportspm]

If we win out, definitely have a chance

 

[ganner918]

We would have to win out, and get help. Not gonna be easy.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Yeah but only if we win out. A tall order.

 

[darkshadesofblue]

Might get slammed for this but I’m not worried about the SEC regular season. That ship has sailed for now. I hope we keeping winning enough to get that double bye for SEC tournament. More worried about the bigger picture after that..

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Might get slammed for this but I’m not worried about the SEC regular season. That ship has sailed for now. I hope we keeping winning enough to get that double bye for SEC tournament. More worried about the bigger picture after that..

I'm gonna selfishly hope we end up as the 2 or 3 seed. I'm driving down from near Nashville to North of Mobile that day.

Will be at hotel for night games. If we stay the 5 seed I'm gonna be driving when we play. Ugh.

 

[Woodrow_Call_1998]

I said this in another thread, but we have the most talented in the conference. Youth and other factors may hold us back from winning it but I wouldn’t be surprised if they won the rest of our regular season games. I also wouldn’t be shocked if we lose more games that we shouldn’t lose either. We’ll just have to wait and see how it plays out. Hopefully we build from this win and play good from now on

 

[Rideordiewildcat]

Bama looks tough. I expect them to win it. I'm just glad we look like we will finish top 4. Looked bleak a week ago.

If we can beat Bama or TN and win the rest I will be happy and hopeful.

 

[BlueBomb]

Win the next five. Lose at UT. Win the SECT. Finish 26-8.

That would give us a 2/3 seed. Puncher’s chance.

 

[UK67KU59]

Would love to either win the regular season or tourney crowns. Just gotta keep taking it one game at a time, 1 play at a time. Feeling a lot better after today.

 

[Mike-McD]

How is it not a stretch? We would need Alabama to lose twice and we would have to win out.

 

[Rockfly78]

We will need a lot of help

 

[CGblue]

That Florida game at Rupp.. Son of a!!

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Bama will lose twice, including once to UK but UT won't be enough. Think we can snag 3 seed though behind bama and UT.

 

[bbncal02]

I will take 2nd or third at this point. The SEC has been tough as hell especially at the top.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

That Florida game at Rupp.. Son of a!!

That loss still shocks me now. I was there and still can’t believe they loss. Up 4, 21 seconds left, 2 chances to get rebounds to seal it and they didn’t

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

At this point, I’m cool with getting top 4. Get the 2 or 4 seed so we can avoid the 10 o’clock game on Friday night

 

[HenryMuto]

Should have beat Florida that ended any chance but you can still dream

 

[Fox2monk]

Current standings:

Bama 10-2
Tenn 9-3
USC 9-4
Auburn 9-4
UK 8-4
Florida 8-4

We SHOULD win LSU, Ms St, Vandy, Arkansas. Hold court at Rupp vs Bama (we are due) and it all may come down to UT on the road.

Bama still has us, @Miss, Tenn, @ Florida

Tenn still has us, Auburn, @Bama, @USC

USC is fading and has multiple road games, TAM, Miss, MST, plus Tenn at home

Florida has Bama twice and at USC

USC blew a 16 point lead tonight and lost by 1 to LSU. We have to beat Bama.

 

[Fox2monk]

At this point, I’m cool with getting top 4. Get the 2 or 4 seed so we can avoid the 10 o’clock game on Friday night

Keep playing hard and try to win, if we beat Bama and win a couple others in this tough stretch we will be right there.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Keep playing hard and try to win, if we beat Bama and win a couple others in this tough stretch we will be right there.

For sure, next week is huge. LSU are frisky but Kentucky should beat them, and then bama at home, Kentucky needs a big win at home, and that’s the game to get it

 

[CatOfDaVille]

For sure, next week is huge. LSU are frisky but Kentucky should beat them, and then bama at home, Kentucky needs a big win at home, and that’s the game to get it

I'm kinda worried about LSU. Classic trap game sandwiched between two big Sat games. Similar to UF, and they always seem to play us tough in Baton Rouge.

Optimistically though, we didn't have a great shooting night tonight, so hopefully we light it up on Wed. Also would be nice to get Mitchell back.

 

[caneintally]

the game IMO that worries me ( really there is only 1 left as I feel reallllly good about the UT game ) is Bama at Rupp. If it was on the road I would feel better but we got them at home . IF we win next saturday I believe we win out and I believe we win the SECT. WHo knows if we win a peice of SEC regular season but at that point I wouldn't care. I just want to be a 2 or 3 seed . Just a big difference between that and a 4 or 5 seed ( where we are now ) .

 

[Cowtown Cat]

That Florida game at Rupp.. Son of a!!

Yep! Said when it happened, it was a toughhhhh loss. Most likely the determining factor if we don’t win the conference.

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

Win the next five. Lose at UT. Win the SECT. Finish 26-8.

That would give us a 2/3 seed. Puncher’s chance.

2 seed is impossible now......... if we are 26-8 most likely we will be a 4 seed.

 

[HagginHall1999]

2 seed is impossible now......... if we are 26-8 most likely we will be a 4 seed.

I don't know if it is impossible, but I think the only way we get it is to win out through Saturday at SECT. They don't look at Sunday results, so would have to win out from here on.

That would give us wins over 4 of Top 10 Ken Pom, 3 of which would have come in the final month of season. Plus the Saturday game of SECT would likely be another quad 1. We would have at minimum 6 Q1 wins at that point and would be on a 10 game winning streak at 26-7.

 

[CapnBlubs]

Should've won that freaking Florida game...oh and for that matter the Tennessee home game but we were too busy doing anything other than playing ANY defense. Like Cal and the players should be ashamed forever of what they did without the ball for weeks there. What the hell?

Won't win the SEC this year and those two games I just mentioned are why. Don't lose at Rupp. That's our damn house. Defend it. But NIL-era mercenaries don't take that level of pride in the jersey, court, etc. That's what it comes down to.

 

[Smashcat]

One game at a time. Get healthy, Mr. Mitchell.

 

[Fox2monk]

One game at a time. Get healthy, Mr. Mitchell.

As long as Cal Swaps him and Theiro at the 4 or Runs small with Trey at the 5. I’m liking Ugo playing a lot.

 

[wccat2969]

Vandy and Arkansas are the only games I am confident to be Ws. We could win any of the other remaining games or lose them. Defense has to continue to improve.

 

[Tampa_cat54]

How is it not a stretch? We would need Alabama to lose twice and we would have to win out.

Bama will almost certainly lose twice and probably 3 times tbh (@ Kentucky, @ Ole Miss and @ Florida, the TN game in Tuscaloosa could also do it).

So much needed to shake out- I just want to be the 2 or 3 seed at least in the SEC Tournament.

So if Bama wants to keep winning (besides in Rupp), that's fine with me.

Need South Carolina to fall apart (which I think they will, they won't win some of these tough road games IMO).

Need Florida to drop a couple, and need Auburn and/or Tennessee to drop a couple.

Idk, so much up in the air.

Win these next 3 (@ LSU, vs. Bama, @ Arkansas) then I feel GREAT.

Lose one of these, it gets tough.

 

[Ukgold]

Current standings:

Bama 10-2
Tenn 9-3
USC 9-4
Auburn 9-4
UK 8-4
Florida 8-4

We SHOULD win LSU, Ms St, Vandy, Arkansas. Hold court at Rupp vs Bama (we are due) and it all may come down to UT on the road.

Bama still has us, @Miss, Tenn, @ Florida

Tenn still has us, Auburn, @Bama, @USC

USC is fading and has multiple road games, TAM, Miss, MST, plus Tenn at home

Florida has Bama twice and at USC

Very tall order my friend but right now is when we want our Cats to start eating everyone they see Winning the Sec and sec tournament could set us up for a run in the tourney

 

[BelfryKYCatFanatic]

No longer concerned for the SEC Regular season, we just need to get into that 4th spot or better for the Double Bye in Nashville.
Nashville will be nuts and I think we can atleast make it to Saturday, depending on the matchups.
I do like the way we tend to play outside of Rupp, with the game at USC as the only exception. I think our defense has dramatically improved since then.
The Win at Auburn was huge and hopefully a huge confidence boost for the guys. We should all be pretty optimistic at this point. We are trending up!

Go Cats!

 

[Disappointed Cat]

Current standings:

Bama 10-2
Tenn 9-3
USC 9-4
Auburn 9-4
UK 8-4
Florida 8-4

We SHOULD win LSU, Ms St, Vandy, Arkansas. Hold court at Rupp vs Bama (we are due) and it all may come down to UT on the road.

Bama still has us, @Miss, Tenn, @ Florida

Tenn still has us, Auburn, @Bama, @USC

USC is fading and has multiple road games, TAM, Miss, MST, plus Tenn at home

Florida has Bama twice and at USC

When you live in fantasy land.....you never lose....that is in your own mind.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

We would have to win out, and get help. Not gonna be easy.

Ya major long shot. Just glad we most likely won't be playing Thursday now at the sec. Pretty sad that was a concern with this talent but it was

 

[HagginHall1999]

When you live in fantasy land.....you never lose....that is in your own mind.

When you live in a constant state of negativity.....you are always disappointed....that is in your own mind.

 

[Disappointed Cat]

When you live in a constant state of negativity.....you are always disappointed....that is in your own mind.

Ever hear of living in the real world?

 

[UKBB4Ever]

I'm gonna selfishly hope we end up as the 2 or 3 seed. I'm driving down from near Nashville to North of Mobile that day.

Will be at hotel for night games. If we stay the 5 seed I'm gonna be driving when we play. Ugh.

The worst seed is the 3. Plays at 8:30 on Friday night. Next worst is the 2. Plays at 6:00 Friday night. The 1 plays at noon. The 4 plays at 2:30.

 

[deputy assistant]

How is it not a stretch? We would need Alabama to lose twice and we would have to win out.

UK could run the table potentially and get the regular season title. It won’t be easy, though. I think it’s plausible that Bama loses twice. I feel my Gators could split the series with Bama and I also think UK can beat them.